| THE COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE: PHONOLOGY, SEMANTICS, GRAMMAR, AND PRAGMATICS |
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| THEORIES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT |
| The Learning Theory View |
| The Nativist View |
| The Interactionist View |
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| THE ANTECEDENTS OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT |
| Not by Word Alone: Preverbal Communication |
| Early Language Comprehension |
| Babbling and Other Early Sounds |
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| SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT: THE POWER OF WORDS |
| How Children Acquire Words |
| What Kinds of Words Do Children Learn First? |
| Errors in Early Word Use |
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| THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR: FROM WORDS TO SENTENCES |
| Can One Word Express a Complete Thought? |
| Two-Word Sentences |
| Learning the Rules |
| Approaching Formal Grammar |
| How Children Make Sense of What They Hear |
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| LEARNING THE SOCIAL AND CREATIVE USES OF LANGUAGE |
| The Rules of Pragmatics |
| Learning to Adjust Speech to Audience |
| Learning to Listen Critically |
| The Use of Figurative Language |
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| METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS: KNOWING ABOUT LANGUAGE |
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| BILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT |
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| SUMMARY |
